"language game" meaning in English

See language game in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: language games [plural]
Etymology: Calque of German Sprachspiel, coined by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Etymology templates: {{calque|en|de|Sprachspiel}} Calque of German Sprachspiel Head templates: {{en-noun}} language game (plural language games)
  1. (philosophy) A set of rules governing how participants respond to utterings. Categories (topical): Philosophy Translations (in philosophy): sprogspil [neuter] (Danish), kielipeli (Finnish), Sprachspiel [neuter] (German), zasady rozmowy [feminine, plural] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-language_game-en-noun-LTH0L8-5 Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences Disambiguation of 'in philosophy': 71 18 11
  2. A game that is based on players’ knowledge of a language or languages, such as fictionary, hangman. etc.
    Sense id: en-language_game-en-noun-MMzV~6QY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 44 47
  3. A method of manipulating words so that the layman would find it hard to understand, such as pig Latin, gibberish, etc.
    Sense id: en-language_game-en-noun-H9WZOOoh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 44 47

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for language game meaning in English (2.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "Sprachspiel"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of German Sprachspiel",
      "name": "calque"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of German Sprachspiel, coined by Ludwig Wittgenstein.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "language games",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "language game (plural language games)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Philosophy",
          "orig": "en:Philosophy",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A set of rules governing how participants respond to utterings."
      ],
      "id": "en-language_game-en-noun-LTH0L8-5",
      "links": [
        [
          "philosophy",
          "philosophy"
        ],
        [
          "rule",
          "rule"
        ],
        [
          "respond",
          "respond"
        ],
        [
          "uttering",
          "uttering"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(philosophy) A set of rules governing how participants respond to utterings."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "71 18 11",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "in philosophy",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "sprogspil"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "71 18 11",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "in philosophy",
          "word": "kielipeli"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "71 18 11",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "in philosophy",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Sprachspiel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "71 18 11",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "in philosophy",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "zasady rozmowy"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "9 44 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A game that is based on players’ knowledge of a language or languages, such as fictionary, hangman. etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-language_game-en-noun-MMzV~6QY",
      "links": [
        [
          "fictionary",
          "fictionary"
        ],
        [
          "hangman",
          "hangman"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "9 44 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A method of manipulating words so that the layman would find it hard to understand, such as pig Latin, gibberish, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-language_game-en-noun-H9WZOOoh",
      "links": [
        [
          "manipulating",
          "manipulating"
        ],
        [
          "layman",
          "layman"
        ],
        [
          "pig Latin",
          "pig Latin"
        ],
        [
          "gibberish",
          "gibberish"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Ludwig Wittgenstein",
    "en:Language game (philosophy)"
  ],
  "word": "language game"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms calqued from German",
    "English terms derived from German"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "Sprachspiel"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of German Sprachspiel",
      "name": "calque"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of German Sprachspiel, coined by Ludwig Wittgenstein.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "language games",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "language game (plural language games)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Philosophy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A set of rules governing how participants respond to utterings."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "philosophy",
          "philosophy"
        ],
        [
          "rule",
          "rule"
        ],
        [
          "respond",
          "respond"
        ],
        [
          "uttering",
          "uttering"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(philosophy) A set of rules governing how participants respond to utterings."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A game that is based on players’ knowledge of a language or languages, such as fictionary, hangman. etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fictionary",
          "fictionary"
        ],
        [
          "hangman",
          "hangman"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A method of manipulating words so that the layman would find it hard to understand, such as pig Latin, gibberish, etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "manipulating",
          "manipulating"
        ],
        [
          "layman",
          "layman"
        ],
        [
          "pig Latin",
          "pig Latin"
        ],
        [
          "gibberish",
          "gibberish"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "in philosophy",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "sprogspil"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in philosophy",
      "word": "kielipeli"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in philosophy",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Sprachspiel"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "in philosophy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "zasady rozmowy"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Ludwig Wittgenstein",
    "en:Language game (philosophy)"
  ],
  "word": "language game"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.